Let’s Give Bambi A Chance!

In mass a dozen clergy rose to their feet and in unison shouted out “bang”.  It was the official beginning of hunting season in central Pennsylvania.  It seems their area minister – ME – had scheduled a clergy development day on this high holy day.  Shame on me!  One decisive “bang.”  That was it – no “rata-tat-tat.” No multi-shot assault weapons allowed in the sport of hunting “game”!  One shot – if you miss the deer or whatever animal, it wins.  No 30 shot magazines.  No assault weapons!

Assault weapons are killing our “bambis”.  The little dear ones in Newtown (and now in Parkland) would have had a fighting chance if the gunman would have had a one shot and reload weapon. 

For our ancestors hunting put food on the table.  For my clergy friend hunters and others the sport of hunting is an outdoor get away from the pressures of daily life.  But let’s at least make that outdoor adventure a fair game for Bambi and other God created creatures.  One “bang” is enough!

When background checks occasionally fail and mental health issues are missed, at least a ban on military style assault weapons would lower the carnage.  Such a ban seems a reasonable legislative action to take.    

Prayers are fruitless unless we put feet on them!

P.S. I weep; I am incensed; I cannot believed that 5-10% of Americans are controlling a majority of the spineless cowards in Congress!

Bob Naylor